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C I be far den of pleaf ant Flowers. 
y. Iris bulbofe mttlor fine Uts foist elbe. 
The great white bulbous Flowcrdclucc. 
The great white bulbous Flowerdeluce,rifethnotvpfo early out of the groundas 
the blew or purple doth, but about a moneth or more after , whofc leaues are fome- 
w hat larger, and broader then of the others : the ftalke is thicker and ihorter, bea- 
ring vfually two very large and great flowers, one flowring a little before the other, 
yet oftentimes bath in flower together in the end , of a bleake blewifli white colour’ 
which wee call a filuer colour, while they are in the buddc,and before they be blownc 
open, butthen of a purer white, yetwith an eyeorfhewofthat filuer colourremai- 
ning in them, the three falling leaues being very large, and hauingthat yellow fpot in 
the middle of each ofthem : thefeedesare likewife inclofed in heads , like vnto the 
blew or purple kindes, but larger, andareofareddifh yellow colour like them : the 
roote likewife is not differing, but greater. 
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6. Iris bulbofe mthr tlbt ver legate. 
The great white ftript bulbous Flowerdeluce. 
This white ftript Flowerdeluce , is in roote, leafe, and flower, and in manner of 
growing, like vnto the former white Flowerdeluce ; the onely difference is in the 
marking of the flower, being diuers from it: for this hath in the white flower great 
veines,ftripes, or markes, of a Violet blew c olour, difperfed through the leaues of the 
flower very variably, which addeth a fuperexcellent beauty to the flower. 
■j. Iris bulboftme.hr fine Istifolie verfictltr. 
The great party coloured bulbous Flowerdeluce. 
There is no difference in this from the former, but in the flower, which is of a whi- 
ti fh colour in the three falling leaues , hauing a circle of afh-colour about the yellow 
fpot, the three rigged leaues being likewife whitifh, but ridged and edged with that 
afh-colour, andthe three vpright leaues of a pale blewifh white colour, withfomc 
veines therein ofablewifh purple. 
There hath beene brought vnto vs diuers rootesof thefe kindes, with the dryed 
VirUtts. flowers remaining on them, wherein there hath beene feene more varieties, then I can 
well remember to exprefie, which variety it is very probable, hath rifen by the fowing 
of the feeds, as is truely obferued in the narrower leafed kindc of Flowerdeluce, in the 
T ulipa, and in fome other plants. 
Wee haue heard of one of this kinde of broad leafed Flowerdeluces , that fhould 
run Utes. beare a yellow flower , in the like manner as is to be feene in the narrow leafed ones : 
but I haue not feene any fuch, and therefore I dare report no further of it , vntill time 
hath difeouered the truth erfalffeood of the report. 
The Place. 
Lobelius is the firft reporter , that the blew Flowerdeluce or firft kinde 
of thefe broad leafed Flowerdeluces, groweth naturally in the Weft parts 
of England ; but I am in fome doubt of the truth of that report : for I ra- 
ther thinke , that fome in their trauels through Spaine, or other parts 
where it groweth , being delighted with the beauty of the flower, did 
gather the rootes, and bring them ouer with them , and dwelling in fome 
of the Weft parts of England , planted them, and there encreafing fo 
plentifully as they doe, they were imparted to many, thereby in time 
growing common in all Countrey folkes Gardens thereabouts. They 
grow alfo, and all the other, and many more varieties, about Tho- 
loufe, from whence Plantinianus GafTanus both fent and brought vs 
them, with many other bulbous rootes, and rare plants gathered there- 
abouts. 
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